[PLUG] Getting an smc ez-connect wireless card working...

Chris Jantzen chris-plug at maybe.net
Sat Nov 22 10:56:01 UTC 2003


On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:33:00AM -0800, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 16:17, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 11:55, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:53:12AM -0800, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:19:14AM -0800, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> > > > > Is there any probe I can do that would be more
> > > > > helpful?  If the pcmcia adapter is standard I
> > > > 
> > > > Most of the PCI-PCMCIA adapters for wireless cards aren't full bridges.
> > > > They only work with the card in question and only with said drivers.
> > > 
> It's alive.  It requires a 2.4.22 kernel from ftp.kernel.org and
> surprisingly it's a prism 2 card.  I guess the pci model is the

Yeah, orinoco_plx, right? Just dug that up myself in research. Good on
yah, mate.

> What file do I need to create under /etc/sysconfig for this wireless
> adapter and what goes in it?  I see things like receiving threshold
> etc. that I would think are more tuning issues than anything.

For most distributions, look in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts. Some newer
distributions have shim's to set it up "standard-like" (such as Debian),
but usually you can use /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts too.

> I would expect these to be be set at runtime.  

See iwconfig for twiddling these at runtime.

>Is there a nice 
> console tool like menuconfig just for configuring wireless cards 
> on a Rehat 7.3 system or do they all require X?

Frankly, I dunno. wavemon is a nice tool from console for *monitoring*
your connectivity (not sniffing), though. Anybody else have a good
suggestion here? I'm assuming it'd be distro-specific.


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chris kb7rnl =->
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